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COCYTIAXAE 



2 species only of this subfamily exist. Sir (Jeorge Hampson has raised it to the 

 •ank of a family, Cocyiiadae, and places it after the Lynmntriidae just before the Hypsidae. 

 I do not consider the modification of the veins 7 and 8 of the hindwing more than of 

 an abnormal noctuid type, and I feel sure the proper place for the remarkable insect 

 enumerated below, together with my Eucocyfia meeki, is just after the subfamily 

 Mominae in the family Nootuidae. 



296. COCYTIA DURVILLEI Boisd. 



Cocytia durviUii Boisduval, Mori. Zi/yenid.. p. 22, pi. 1, Hu. 1 (1829) (New Guinea). 



8 6<S 7 ?$ Base Camp, Nov. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



Phytometrinae 

 Of this snbfamily only 1 species was obtained. 



297. Phytometra chalcytes dinawa (B. -Baker). 



Plusia dinatva Betliune-Baker, Noi\ Zool., xiii. p. 270, No. 24t (1906) (New Guinea). 

 1 ^ Base Camp, March 1913 ; 1 o Utakwa River, 4000-6000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 

 1913 ; 1 ? Carstensz Peak, 5000-10,000 ft., Feb.— March 1913. 



Noctuinae 



Dr. Wollaston sent 23 species of this subfamily, of which 10 species and 2 subspecies 

 are new. This subfamily and the next have not yet been revised by Sir George Hamp- 

 son, so I am not at all sure if I have arranged the genera in proper order. Further it 

 is not certain whether some of the genera may not have been wrongly assigned — i.e. 

 some genera of Noctuinae placed in the Hypeninae and vice versa. 



298. BuzARA chrysomela Walk. 



Buzara chnjsomvhi Walker, List Lcp. IlH. B.M., xxxi. p. 159 (186-1) (New Guinea). 

 1 ? Base Camp, March 1913 ; 1 ¥ Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 1 ? Utakwa River, 4000- 

 6000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



299. Hypocala affinis sp. nov. 



<i. Antennae brown ; head and palpi cream-colour ; tegulae, basal half pale cinnamon, 



outer half silvery ash-grey, a black line separating the two halves ; rest of thorax silvery 



ash-grey ; abdomen golden yellow, basal segment silvery ash-grey, anal segment black, 



anal tuft buff, some indistinct doisal greyish marks on orange on 2nd, 3rd and 4th 



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